Politics And Cultural Critique
From the vantage of Europe, American politics seems like the circus: many exciting activities being played out under the big top, activities …
Politics And Cultural Critique
From the vantage of Europe, American politics seems like the circus: many exciting activities being played out under the big top, activities …
Noboru Ishikawa, “Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a South East Asian Borderland” (NUS Press, 2010)
Borneo is an island where three very different nation-states meet: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. The Indonesian province of Kalimantan occupies most of …
Cracks in Everything
Philosophy is dead. At least, it is according to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who believes the discipline hasn’t kept up with modern …
Enraptured Politics
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are “primitive” or “far-fetched,” think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger …
Enraptured Politics
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are “primitive” or “far-fetched,” think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger …
Enraptured Politics
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are “primitive” or “far-fetched,” think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger …
Enraptured Politics
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are “primitive” or “far-fetched,” think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger …
Debt-Limit Chicken
Even though the possibility of a federal government default is an issue with potentially catastrophic consequences, GOP leaders in the House and …
Douglas Rogers, “The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals” (Cornell UP, 2009)
What are ethics? What are morals? How are they constituted, practiced, and regulated? How do they change over time? My own research is informed by …
Debt-Limit Chicken
Even though the possibility of a federal government default is an issue with potentially catastrophic consequences, GOP leaders in the House and …
Debt-Limit Chicken
Even though the possibility of a federal government default is an issue with potentially catastrophic consequences, GOP leaders in the House and …
Longing for Competence in a Land Where Nothing Works
The stunning capture and death of Osama bin Laden belies the widespread and ever-insistent notion that nothing works in America.
Longing for Competence in a Land Where Nothing Works
The stunning capture and death of Osama bin Laden belies the widespread and ever-insistent notion that nothing works in America.
Longing for Competence in a Land Where Nothing Works
The stunning capture and death of Osama bin Laden belies the widespread and ever-insistent notion that nothing works in America.
Thesis Defended. Issue #2: Public Anthropology
A few weeks have gone by, flowers have bloomed, the snow is gone, and I’m far less agitated then I was immediately …
Media Failure and the Image of Africa
Framed by media reports, the image of Africa for Americans consists of tales of unending political riots, cases of fraudulent elections, and …
«Skulle bare skremme’n!»
Lesetid: 6 minutterEtniske minoritetsgutter leker med majoritetens fordommer og stereotypier. Til tross for at de er godt tilpasset det norske samfunnet og …
Anti Anti-Science
The culture of anti-science is creating an alternative universe of meaning in which scientific practices and findings, which tend to subvert fundamentalist …